We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.